Wanda Sykes Comes Out in Wake of Gay Marriage Ban
Author: Vicki Hyman // Category: Lesbian, Stand Up Comedy
One thing to come out of the same-sex marriage ban in California? Comedian Wanda Sykes.
Sykes says she’s never been particularly secretive about her sexual orientation, but she took the stage at a gay rights rally in Las Vegas over the weekend to announce that she’s gay. And pretty angry. She says the passage of Proposition 8 earlier this month put her on the defensive.
“Now, I gotta get in their face,” she told the crowd on Saturday. She was in town to perform at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, but her appearance at the rally surprised organizers, according to the Associated Press. “I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay,” she says.
Sykes, who co-stars in “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” says that until California voters decided to ban gay marriage, she never felt like she had to talk being a lesbian. “I was just living my life, not necessarily in the closet, but I was living my life. Everybody that knows me personally, they know I’m gay. But that’s the way people should be able to live their lives.”
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This article, written by Vicki Hyman, originally appeared inthe Star Ledger. View Source.
Photo by Jason Decrow . AP Photo.
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